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Post by imagemaker18 on Jul 25, 2013 16:45:25 GMT
<snip> It really is a great piece. I just wish they had the technology to film the riot with people like Debussy and Ravel there. If it were possible to go back in time (time machine? ), one of the main places I would have loved to visit would have been to have attended the Theatre Champs-Elysees in Paris, on the evening of May 29, 1913. Debussy was said to have been very incensed by this strange sounding wildly savage composition! He apparently was even more incensed when The Rite had a great success later in London! Do you ever wonder what people like Ravel, Gertrude Stein, Proust, and Picasso had to say about this? In my many experiences with all three, I found Petrouchka the easiest, and incredible fun to play! Next in difficulty comes the comlete Firebird, with Le Sacre being the most challenging, requiring true virtuosity both instrumentally and rhythmically, the latter especially on the part of the conductor, and particularly in the Danse Sacrale, where if the conductor slips up (and I have seen some pretty reknown ones fall there ), it can become a monkey wrench in the works!
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